THE BUSTED WINDOW OF CONTENTION WON'T STAY OPEN: THE NHL 2023-2024 SEASON THRED (INC KNIGHTS HANGOVER & PANIC MOVES. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

let’s all welcome back Canada to the Stanley cup finals

that first McDavid goal

Let's fuckin go oil

expected goals tonight: dallas 3.37, edmonton 1.01

sometimes a goalie steals a game, and sometimes that goalie turns out to be stuart skinner

i hadn't noticed, but defector pointed out that the edmonton crowd's initial response to macdavid's goal was to gasp before they started cheering

understandable

here's a record that will never be broken: overtime playoff wins

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOtz4ysWYAArCaR?format=png&name=360x360

kind of rude to take a whole week off before Game 1 of the cup finals

so dumb

guessing they'd have liked to start thursday, but the NBA's own week off beat them to it. have to play saturday because that's HNIC

also there are a bunch of two-day breaks (that would still be there if it were dallas vs florida, so it's not about flight distance)

;_;

Dogshit

The capitals have bought capfriendly, and looks like they want to make it a completely different site / remove all that salary cap info that fans love.

rip canada, among others

well good for yous

that was fun!

oh my god Tkachuk just made the most amazing empty net save. didn't matter but still extremely cool

oilers have life

wild game

are they gonna do it?

that tkachuk dive was amazing, not least because he never stopped chewing his damn mouthguard

buying capfriendly somehow did not prevent washington from acquiring 7 years/$60m worth of pierre-luc dubois, a player three teams have now given up on before he even turned 26

LFG

L F G

L

F

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wild wild wild

feeling unreasonably tense

I don't usually watch hockey but I'm super tempted to throw this on, mostly for the schadenfreude of possibly watching a team blow a 3-0 lead in the finals. Does that make me a bad person?

no

Definitely not and even if it did, fuck Florida

btw it's absurd that the stanley cup will be awarded, in a normal non-olympic/pandemic season, on june 24. it's full-on summer ffs

the 1991 finals went six games and ended on may 25

also it's gonna be funny when the florida fans boo bettman when his doggedness is the only reason they have a team

I cant bear the thought of the cup going to Florida, its against nature

alanis!

TSN here was airing G4 of the '88 final this afternoon, Edmonton vs. Boston. Watched a few minutes and saw Gretzky score a goal.

you realize tampa bay has won 3, and las vegas one(1) SC yeah?
xp

let's not talk about that

former penguins evan rodrigues and cody ceci making their presence felt

Just because they won it doesn't mean it's good IMHO

Also this game is nuts

as a lifetime Floridian, rooting full-throated Edmonton

fucking do something leon

a nation turns its lonely eyes to you

fuck

boo

The color guy on the panthers live radio broadcast is wild and unhinged

^ Bill Lindsay

Rats all over the ice!

haha i was mostly listening to the oilers radio pxp guy (who, weirdly, is from western pennsylvania)

damn mcdavid gets MVP that’s not gonna go over well

rather have the cup than a consolation mvp

pretty happy for barkov

god bless phil prichard but this whole 'shining-the-Cup' thing is straight out of some wrestling promotion in the 1980s

the Cup is cool. having a captain hoist it is cool. back off the other stuff

Ah well